“Crack the throttle, and this posh heavyweight lunges forward like a shark that’s been invited to nibble a chunk of Britney Spears,” wrote Tony Swan in Car&Driver’s review. Curiously, it’s not the top of the line Merc: the $190,00 SL65 is. You’d expect Jobs to plump for the best.

In a comment to Hertzfeld’s post, Dan Cochran, who worked at Apple, noted that one day someone converted the handicapped “wheelchair” graphic into the Mercedes logo.

“I thought it was hilarious but as I recall Steve didn’t find it particularly funny at all,” he notes.

Quipped former Apple executive, Jean-Louis Gassee, when he saw Jobs park in a restricted spot: “I never realized those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped…” (According to Wikiquote, Jean-Louis now saysmorally handicapped when retelling the story.)

January 13, 2007Photo by brianamerige In the caption, the photographer says: “Jobs didn’t really seem to care about the car much. He owns the darn parking lot, so he’s parked all crookedly and in a handicap space, no less.”

56 responses to “Steve Jobs Still Parking In Handicapped Spaces — The Pictures”

who cares. he basically owns the parking lot and all the spaces any ways. Plus it’s not like it’s the only handicap space at Apple… And the cars next to his don’t have handicap signs hanging from their mirrors so he’s parking in the furthest one from the building letting the real handicap people park closer… But you would think that he would have his own designated parking spot to park in…

This really shows what money can do and the cops don’t care, but then the whole picture is not shown, is this on private property??? If so the cops must be called and someone must come, but once they see who’s car “Oh well nothing I can do about it” is the answer you get. I have a handi cap plate on my car and I also carry a hanging notice if I should ride in a friends car. Me, I would park my old car close to his and then watch him say a few choice words… I would have it all on tape for the whole world to see….

1. the SL55 AMG doesnt cost $130,000usd … maybe in yen or something, but a quick trip to mbusa.com will set things straight.

2. steve jobs makes more $ before 6am than most people make in their lifetime :)

3. now that we know that ‘tha steve’ likes to bling w/ no cali plates on the car how about an office/web pool to see how long before he ends up showing his pancreas to the local popo in cupertino via intense negotiations?

4. will this change the inverted standards for hiring at the apple store? note to self, grow some dredlocks and dye them purple and invest in birkinstocks. and act like a peecee wiz instead of a thoughtfully spoken mac guy. who knows the entire product line up like the back of his hand.

I guess the thing I’m intrigued by is the fact that this man is no longer here on Earth, and you guys are worried about a flippin parking space. It’s so irrelevant at this point. People can be so apathetic at times.

His illness allowed him to park in the handicapped spots- he was quite weak for some time but he still showed up to do an exceedingly demanding job when no doubt the rest of us would have retired, had we his wealth. He also moved into the downstairs bedroom of his home as he couldn’t make it up and down the stairs daily- does that make him a lazy douche? Admittedly, he was at times a tyrant to work for but he pushed people to achieve far more than they thought they were capable of, and the world is a better place for it. Many times great genius is balanced by extraordinary flaws; he’s admitted he did things he wasn’t proud of but anyone who personally knew Steve are forever grateful to have been on the planet at the same time he was. I miss him and am close to tears even writing this. Guess I’m just a pussy.